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Drunimond, a general account of the Colony's air-breathing 

 Vertebrates. To our own journal Captain Hutton con- 

 tributed ten articles, and other of his ornithological papers 

 will be found in the 'Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute ' and in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 of London/ of which he was for many years a Corresponding 

 Member. 



Dr. Jean-Frederic IiImile Oustalet. — The name of 

 E\mile Oustalet is familiar to most of us as that of the 

 President of the International Ornithological Congress of 

 1900, an office which he gave over personally to Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe on the re-assembling of the last Congress at Cam- 

 bridge in 1905. Dr. Oustalet was born at Montbeliard in 

 August 1844. He entered the service of the great French 

 Museum in the Jardin des Plantes as Assistant Naturalist 

 in 1875, and retained his connection with it until the day 

 of his decease. In 1900, upon the death of Dr. Alphonse 

 Milne-Edwards, he was appointed Professor of Mammalogy, 

 with the special charge of the well-known Menagerie of that 

 Institution, and was also made Sub-Director of the Ecole 

 des Hautes-Etudes, both of which posts he held at the time 

 of his decease. Dr. Oustalet, as we have been informed, 

 commenced his zoological work with the study of Insects, 

 but transferred his attention to Birds when he was ap- 

 pointed to his first post at the Jardin des Plantes. One 

 of his most important publications was that on the Birds of 

 China, which he prepared in connexion with Pere David, 

 the well-known scientific missionary to that country. It 

 was issued in 1877, in two volumes, the second of which 

 contains the Plates, and still remains our best book of 

 general reference on the Avifauna of the Chinese Empire. 

 This was followed in 1879 by a catalogue of the birds ob- 

 tained by the French Explorer Marche on the Ogove River 

 in Gaboon. In 1893, Dr. Oustalet was associated with 

 Dr. Milne-Edwards in preparing an important memoir on 

 the extinct Birds represented in the Museum d'Histoire natu- 

 relle. This was a volume commemorative of the Centenary 



